Jonathan Norton Leonard

FOREWORDis book is concerned with writing as a craft, but it is not a "how-to" book. It neither offers keys to the literary kingdom, nor professes special knowledge of short cuts for converting writing aptitude into publishing contracts. What it does do is to deal with writing as a profession or as...

'The Melting "Pot ^oMth of the 'border Jin the nearly 500 years since the Spanish Conquest of Mexico and South America, a series of richly diverse cuisines has developed in the region. In Mexico, where there was a high Indian civilization, modern cooking is still firmly based on its Aztec-Maya...

^e Qorner of the Qontinent Where American Qooking ^egan T J. he map outlines the territory of this book: from well-tailored Connecticut all the way up to rough-cut Newfoundland and Labrador. Columbus never got within 1,200 miles of here, and as a thoroughly Mediterranean man, he probably would...

INTRODUCTION "This country," wrote Simón Bolívar, the great South American liberator, "was guided by an instinct that can be called the wisdom of nature itself. There were no known models for its creations, and its doctrines had neither teachers nor examples, so that everything about it was...